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Linguistic delays are a frequent concomitant of reduced intellectual ability. The present study examined linguistic development in intellectually impaired children with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). The purposes of the ...

For the last twenty-five years, practitioners of what has come to be known as the New Homiletic have attempted to discover a way through the "crisis" of preaching to a "new effectiveness." A growing cadre of homileticians ...

This dissertation examined the effects of touch in the therapeutic context as a factor in determining patient compliance with physician directives. In particular, the current research focused on how the use of touch performs ...

Racist and covert racist acts have generally been researched from the perspective of dominant group members. The focus of this dissertation is on the little-researched point of view of non-dominant members who believe they ...

Nationalism is perhaps the most potent contemporary political force in the world, and yet the discursive means by which collective identity is created, maintained, and transformed are under-explored. This study comparatively ...

This dissertation examines the discourse of an electronic mail listserv. Two research questions were specified: (1) Does this listserv (called Pednet) constitute a speech community? and (2) If Pednet is a speech community, ...

It is known that infants' ability to recognize intensity variations, an important aspect of speech processing, is immature. However, processes contributing to this immaturity have not been identified. Measuring the intensity ...

The objective of this investigation was to describe development of lip and jaw coordination during speech. The potential influence of labiomandibular coordination on phonologic acquisition was also considered. A computer-based ...

This research had three specific aims related to children's comprehension of idioms: (1) to reexamine the impact of analyzability on children's comprehension of unfamiliar idioms; (2) to explore the patterns of developmental ...

The goal of this study was to explore the clinical utility of the electrically evoked whole-nerve action potential (EAP), measured with the Neural Response Telemetry (NRT) capabilities of Cochlear Corporation's Nucleus ...

This project examines group decision-making as a social construction process. Few group decision-making theories view communication as constitutive of social reality, and those that do have not addressed the processual and ...

Short-term memory problems are a normal part of aging but they can also indicate early signs of dementing diseases such as Alzheimer's. The P3 cognitive evoked response is a technique thought to directly assess short-term ...

The goal of reading is to gain meaning from text. Subsequently, reading comprehension skills become a much greater focus in third or fourth grade as children begin reading text to learn. A text's meaning is a combination ...

Theories of spoken language production propose that the formulation of an utterance entails processing at a number of functionally distinct stages. The stages of processing that include the generation or retrieval of an ...

This study investigated the use of static assessment (SA) and dynamic assessment (DA) methodologies for examining the production of requests for information (RI) by children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD; N=14) and ...

The Scaffolding Scale of Stimulability (SSS) is a dynamic assessment of phonological change. Using the SSS, clinicians evaluate phonological skills by documenting a child's response to cues and manipulations of the linguistic ...

This study investigates the construct validity of a new measure of Integrative Language functioning, Tallying Reference Errors In Narratives (TREIN), by examining the association between previously existing CNS impairment ...

An increasingly common approach to treating severe to profound hearing loss in children and adults is cochlear implantation, with over 219,000 users worldwide. While most cochlear implant (CI) users achieve high levels of ...